Pro life group SPUC welcomes appeal date for Glasgow midwives

14 August 2012

Pro-life group SPUC welcomes appeal date for Glasgow midwives 14 August 2012: The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) www.spuc.org.uk has welcomed the news that an appeal will be heard next January in the case of two Glasgow midwives who refuse to supervise abortion procedures.

In February this year a judge in the Scottish Court of Session said that the midwives, Mary Doogan and Connie Wood, had to accept management instructions to oversee abortions performed by other midwives on the labour ward.

The midwives had argued that they had never been required to supervise abortion procedures in the past, and that the hospital was asking them to be morally, medically and legally responsible for abortions.

They argued that this conflicted with their profound objection to abortions and with the right to opt-out that is protected in the 1967 Abortion Act.